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Water & Sewer Department Supervisor Tom Pondolfino was among city workers who filled Common Council’s Tuesday, April 21, meeting.
hen the Mayor Miller Memorial Task Force formed, Council members Larry Malone and Mike Lynch, the co-chairs, asked anyone interested in participating to step forward. Among those who did
were Malone’s son, Theo, an OHS senior. “Dick was really a heroic figure for him,” said Theo’s father, who with Lynch convened the task force’s first meeting Thursday, April 16, in the first floor conference room at City Hall. The meeting began, as you might imagine,
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with task force members remembering Dick Miller, whose sudden death last Oct. 25 evoked a citywide outpouring of mourning, culminating in a packed memorial service that filled Foothills’ main theater and overflowed into the Atrium. “There were some interesting moments,” said
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ilently, watchful city workers from police, fire and public works filled the benches at the Common Council meeting on Tuesday, April 21. Though no one spoke during the public comment period, Tom Pondolfino, Water & Sewer Department supervisor, said: “The message here is that workers are interested in the process of management – and we’re not happy with management.” For an explanation Wednesday, April 22, visit
BILLBOARDS OUT: Council voted 6-2 to table the proposed 10-year lease agreement with Park Outdoor and DC Marketing to put billboards on city property at Silas Lane and Bridge Street.
Malone. Some task force members recounted how they have been unable to remove his cell phone number from their iPhones of mobile devices. Task force members recalled “the way he always welcomed people, and welcomed engagement and welcomed involvement,” Please See MILLER, A7
1,500 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick students, and community members, stayed up all night to raise a record-setting $67,293 at the Relay For Life on Friday-Saturday, April 17-18, at the Alumni Field House. Team Mimi, from left, are Ethan Lowe, Otego, Elaine Lowe, Otego, Moira Beach, Oneonta, Diane Loveland, Otego, Laura Emmett, Maryland, Judi McWherter, Oneonta, Rachael Price, Oneonta, Kate Bronk, Oneonta, and Natalia Allen, Oneonta. In photo at left, SUNY students Kayla Newton and Amanda Pentak made their way.
Buses Rolling Toward ‘Destination Downtown Oneonta’ want people to come downtown – there are so many shops and restaurants to enjoy.” ou may have seen the The website is geared towards “Destination Downtown highlighting the commercial Oneonta” bus rolling side of their business. “We’re around town and wondered what major landholders in Oneonta,” it’s about. And with the launch of said Clark. “We own 30 comwww.downtownoneonta.com on mercial buildings and hundreds Monday, April 20, Peter Clark and of student rentals. We got tired Liz Rose are ready to show you a of having this bad reputation as brand new way to experience Main Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA bad landlords when we’re trying Street. Peter Clark, Liz Rose and Paul Pat- to make Oneonta a better place “Main Street is the heart of to live.” terson show off the “Destination the whole city,” said Rose. “We Please See BUSES, B6 Downtown Oneonta” bus. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ith Democrats John Rafter and Melissa Nicosia announcing campaigns Tuesday, April 21, candidates are quickly multiplying in anticipation of the Nov. 3 elections. The new candidates enter a field that already offers a race in the Fourth Ward – Republican Laura Dohner vs. independent Jeff Back – aiming to succeed retiring Council member Mike Lynch, and more names are surfacing citywide almost daily. Rafter is aiming for Bob Brzozowski’s Seventh Ward Please See RACES, B6
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or Oneonta native Shannon Cayea, her appointment as chief administrator at Focus Otsego Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a chance to come home. “I was working as COO of VestraCare in Johnson City and right now I’m in Saratoga helping their Center for Rehab transition from public to private,” she Please See FOCUS, From A1
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hristopher Eldred and Abby Zulkosky of Oneonta, Tess Schultz of Laurens and Kolby Chawgo of Mount Upton are among 72 SUNY Oneonta students to receive awards for art displayed in the annual Student Juried Art Exhibition, ongoing through May 16 at the Martin-Mullin Art Gallery. The exhibition, featuring Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA more than 100 works by stuDuring the GOHS Coins & Ephemera Show Saturdent artists, opened April 13 day, April 4, at the Oneonta Elks, collector Lynn and runs through May 16 in Bissell, left, presents a fancy trade card, a 19th century means of advertising, to Executive Direc- the college’s Martin-Mullen tor Bob Brzozowski for the society’s collection. Art Gallery.
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fter 10 years in the making, the pictorial history wall of Fox Hospital is complete. The three-panel wall features 4- by 8-foot lighted panels, using a timeline spanning 114 years. The display gives a pictorial history from the laying of the first cornerstone in 1900 through 2014. The project was originally conceived by auxiliary copresidents Bev Ballard and Margaret Henry in 2004. A committee was later formed with fellow auxiliary members Joanne Burdick, Marge O’Mara and Lois Herrick. In 2010, before the work could get started, Henry became ill and passed away. “As a much loved and longtime auxilian, many memorial donations were given to the auxiliary in her name,” says Ballard. Ballard requested that the memorial funds received be used to continue the legacy of the auxiliary, by planning a pictorial history of the first 50 years of the hospital.
It was also decided that the first panel in the display be dedicated to the late Margaret Henry. Last April, the planning committee, lost another member, Lois Herrick. In 2012, the committee began its research process, launching the creation of the historical wall that was to be named “A Journey Through Time.” The team chose to emphasize changes that took place over the years at Fox. Most importantly, the committee made certain that the wall would honor the many men and women of the community who shared a passion for taking care of the sick and injured. “The wall depicts the wide range of services Fox provides, from acute and long-term care to its focus on patient wellness,” says Burdick. The wall also shows how the hospital has evolved and expanded its outreach by adding Fox Hospital Nursing Home, FoxCare Center and its satellite facilities.
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MILFORD FAMILY’S HOME GONE FOREVER The chimney topples at Matt, Jenny and Noah Jahnke’s former home at the north end of the Village of Milford, where crews Monday, April 20, were removing the remains of the house destroyed in a March 12 blaze.
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In Itself, Deluxe Hotel Is Not A Bad Idea For Cooperstown Breakfast? Meet Us At The Bettiol
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ven in the summer, crowds thin out in downtown Cooperstown after 6 or so, as Dreams Park families and tourists generally head back to their rentals or hotel rooms, mostly outside the village. With all the touristrelated entertainment in Hartwick Seminary – the Cooperstown Fun Park, the burgeoning Redneck Bar-BQ and Maskot’s restaurants, the two dime stores, plus games at the youth baseball camps – you can be sure many don’t come back. More distressing to many 12-month residents is how store after downtown store is closing for one, two, three months or more over the winter. Don’t blame the merchants; they’ve simply found it unprofitable to stay open. This downtown slide accelerated when John Bullis took over for Polly Renckens as Chamber of Commerce executive director in 2007 and eliminated 30-some chamber activities – the Christmastime Victorian stroll was always a favorite, and “Holly Dollars” – as unprofitable. The idea wasn’t to make money
– Renckens had an uncanny ability to shake the money tree to cover any shortfalls – but to generate activity. Given that trend, a year‘round hotel in downtown Cooperstown is a good idea, and BTF Cooperstown, the partnership proposing it – Subway franchisee Bob Hurley, Tom Lagan and Perry Ferrara, who owns the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum – should be heralded. The hotel’s 30 rooms, boarding four guests each, would keep 120 people downtown after the throngs go back to Hartwick Seminary, keeping cash registers ringing. Shortterm, it’s a $4 million project. BTF has pledged, if possible, to buy all materials locally, hire local construction workers, and employ 25 local people to staff the hotel. • As with most things, the devil is in the details. Or, better perhaps, the detail is in the devil – Village Hall’s hellishly complicated approval process for any project, small and, even moreso, big. Right now, four boards and commissions are chew-
ing on this bone. • One, the Village Board, which must issue a “specialuse permit” for any hotel in the Business District. At their March 23 meeting, the trustees agreed to consider such and forwarded the application to the village Planning Board. At its April meeting on the 27th, the trustees are expected to set a public hearing on the permit. • Two, the Zoning Board of Appeals, which is considering whether to waive the 3½-story, 42-foot height requirement; the proposed hotel is four stories, 48-feet tall. The ZBA must schedule a public hearing, which it has for 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, its next meeting. • Three, the Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board has to ensure the project fits into the historic fabric of the neighborhood and, in this case, issue a demolition permit for the former T.J.’s which, built in 1986, isn’t considered a “contributing structure” to the historic district. After peppering its own chair, architect Teresa Drerup – halfway through the April 14 meeting, walked across the room to argue for
BTP, her client – with questions on windows, materials and the like, the H-PARB unanimously rejected the application as incomplete. It will have to be resubmitted at H-PARB’s next meeting, May 12. • Four, the Planning Board, which met Tuesday, April 21, has to approve the site plan, including parking – BTP says it can fit 31 parking places behind the hotel, valet parking only; hmmm – storm-water runoff, lighting, a pool and bar planned on the roof, and a myriad of other factors. “This thing could be done by the first part of May if ZBA doesn’t grant the variance,” said Tavis Austin, the village zoning officer. “If any one of these boards says no, the current proposal cannot proceed.” Even if the Planning Board, ZBA and H-PARB say yes, the trustees can still decide not to issue a special permit. • In communities that are less development-averse, professional staff would review the initial application and, if the developers “by right” are allowed to do what they wish, the permits would be issued and the
he developers of Otsego County’s two premier youth baseball camps, Dreams Park’s Lou Presutti Jr. and Cooperstown All-Star Village’s Marty Patton have, by all indications, profited mightily. Why shouldn’t their host communities benefit, too, in substantial ways? If the proposed 30-room hotel in Cooperstown is one manifestation, Gene Bettiol’s exciting concept for the Town of Oneonta – two hotels, a shopping mall, a car dealer, a bank, etc., etc., just down Route 205 from All-Star Village – is even more ambitious and potentially transformative. (It is detailed in our Progress 2015 supplement, which may be viewed at www. allotsego.com) One Bettiol idea must have stopped many readers short: “We want a place where travelers can come in and get breakfast.” How many times did you go to breakfast at the beloved and mourned Neptune Diner and see Gene Bettiol seated in a booth, chatting with wife Betty or greeting friends? They were regulars indeed. Be still, fluttering hearts: Is he talking about building a new Neptune! The Bettiol Diner has a nice ring. “If anyone can get it done, it’s Gene,” said Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood. If so, three cheers for the baseball camps, indeed. project would go forward. But if this project were proposed in such a municipality, the height issue and parking plan would still require review. Still, in listing all the hurdles above, you have to conclude the Cooperstown village code was created to block anything substantial from happening. Is that really what the citizens want? Is that really good for the village? Anyone advising the developers might suggest that the height be reduced to 42 feet, and that off-site parking – now allowed under an ordinance trustees approved earlier this year – be found elsewhere to meet those requirements. If the numbers work, why trouble trouble?
Downtown hotels are community assets. The historical Bethlehem Hotel in Pennsylvania comes to mind. The Atherton Hotel in State College is modern, but fits in to the historic ambience. Both have parking decks on site. No problemo. Closer to home, the Hotel Saranac. The Cooperstown community is already blessed with first-rate accommodations – The Otesaga, the Cooper Inn, the Inn at Cooperstown, the Lakefront Hotel among them. And, yes, there are wrinkles that need to be ironed out on this plan But another deluxe operation, as the developers promise this hotel will be, and a multi-million investment, have to be a plus.
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t’s not that tougher Common Corealigned exams suddenly showed up. They landed in 2013. It’s not that test-prep is suddenly eating away at instruction. New York capped the time teachers can spend on what are often perceived as drill-and-kill sessions. What’s new is the arrival, thanks to Governor Cuomo, of a teacher evaluation system that might begin to distinguish between the best instructors and the worst, in part by using student test-score gains. That was, for the state’s teachers union, a declaration of war. To the barricades they went, rallying parents to tell Johnny and Janey to refuse to have their new skills measured. ... Sensibly, lower-income parents, who
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have learned the hard way not to trust their schools, are looking for evidence of whether or not their kids are learning. Meantime, new evidence from the state shows that students who have top-rated teachers two years in a row are far likelier to raise their math proficiency than those with a lower-rated teachers two years in a row. And black and Hispanic students are far likelier to be stuck with teachers rated ineffective. Teachers are professionals. They deserve to be treated as such – and rated based on tests and supervisor observations. The opt-out wave may make that process politically harder, but this is a speedbump, not a roadblock.
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ake no mistake, the high number of students who played hooky from the first round of state tests reveal more than just a simple protest against standardized testing. Various constituencies joined the “opt out” movement, for myriad reasons. But a large, growing, diverse group of parents had their kids sit out the grade 3-8 ELA tests this week because they don’t like the smell of our governmentdriven educational policies. What are people opposed to or concerned about? Everything from the overheated rollout of the Common Core standards to the bizarre political battle over evaluating teachers to
the creeping loss of local school control to the teach-to-the-test mentality that they perceive as killing their kids’ love of learning. When 20, 30 or 40 percent of students in many districts are skipping state tests, the message is undeniable: Something has gone very wrong. Yet, state education leaders proceed full-steam ahead. It is time for the state Board of Regents and its staff in the state Education Department to acknowledge their critics. Their strategy of insisting, ad nauseam, that New York’s “reform agenda” is the only way to produce students who are career- and college-ready has failed. State officials need to rethink ... how they communicate with parents, administrators and teachers who actually know our students and schools.
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Editorial Attacks, Devalues Public School Teachers To the Editor: Last week’s editorial regarding the public school testing opt-out movement insists that identifying the problem is equal to implementing a solution. You further simplify the debate as a NYSUT-conjured argument. The opt-out effort is largely a grassroots phenomenon. It grew out of the disastrous implementation of Common Core, and only this year has NYSUT become a noticeably vocal supporter of it. In the first week of testing, more than 300,000 New York students opted out of the tests. This can hardly be construed as simply a labor/management (union/government) struggle. On the contrary, those numbers reflect that parents, students and teachers, from across the political spectrum, are disenchanted with a testing system
(implemented simultaneously with severe and inequitable state funding cuts) that forces teachers to “teach to the test” and forces schools to defund or reduce non-testing areas like visual and performing arts. Indeed, I am aware first hand that even recess has been limited in area elementary schools. The overall attitude of your editorial is what most concerns me. You begrudge New York teachers their relatively high salaries, even in the most expensive state. You imply that parents and teachers are less thoughtful than the government and its private sector partners, who are profiting off of these tests. You imply that parents and students who opt out are just following a teachers union’s best interests. You also imply that smaller school
districts across the state should be treated the same as larger, but less successful, city districts. Readers and advertisers of this paper have one more reason not to dismiss the Common Core debacle: whether you agree with them or not, thousands perceive this is an attack on, and a devaluation of, public school teachers. Our local state college depends heavily on teenagers who dream of being public school teachers. We are already seeing enthusiasm for the profession diminish. With economic development refusing to take hold in our area, imagine the impact a financial crisis at SUNY Oneonta would have. This is a fight for everyone, not just the union. J LENTNER Oneonta
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Violations of Section 8 of the City Ordinances – “Running Motor Vehicles at a Speed in Excess of 15 Miles per Hour” on the city streets have been all too common thus far in the spring. The police department is determined to curb the practice which so often endangers the life and limb of pedestrians and other travelers on the streets. In the future, any person, save a physician, who is caught driving at a speed of more than 15 mile per hour, will be arrested and brought into court. Two such offenders – one man driving a motor car and the second riding a motorcycle – were arrested Sunday afternoon by motorcycle policeman E.V. Brown while speeding on the brick pavement in East End. Both were arraigned yesterday morning in city court before Judge Shove. The driver of the motor car was fined $5 and warned to use care in the future. The motorcyclist was let off with a $3 fine and a similar warning. Persons who persist in riding bicycles on the sidewalks of the city will also be arrested and brought into court. April 1915
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A new physical therapy department, a new basal metabolism and electro-cardiograph room and a new three-bed patients’ room in the enlarged and improved Fox Hospital will be made possible by a memorial gift of $43,200 received from Mrs. Beatrice W. Blanding, president and principal
express a feeling of ‘being picked on’ or ‘misused.’ Sergeant Case was facing a disciplinary hearing on four charges at the time that he made the remark and felt that he was ‘a target’ and ‘was being shot at from many angles.’ Case was convicted earlier on a charge that he failed to report an accident involving a police car in “a timely and proper manner.” April 1975
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State and federal prisons held nearly 464,000 people at the end of 1984, a record inmate population for the 10th straight year. The prison population grew by 6.1 percent over 1983, and the number of state and federal inmates has skyrocketed by 40.6 percent since 1980. The largest prison population increases last year (1984) occurred in western and northeastern states. Despite adding an estimated 100,000 beds over the past four years, state prisons are operating at 110 percent of their capacity. More than 11,000 prisoners are backed up in local jails. Fourteen states reported giving early releases to more than 17,000 inmates last year because of overcrowding. The number of female prisoners, though only 4.5 percent of the total population increased by nearly nine percent last year to a total of about 21,000. In 1983, there were four incarcerations per 100 serious crimes, up from 2.6 new admissions per serious crime reported in 1980. April 1985 April 1890
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Dr. Arthur C. Parker, former state archaeologist and Director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and his assistant archaeologist, Dr. William A. Ritchie will soon visit Oneonta to confirm reports of Roland B. Hill, amateur archaeologist and his father Frank M. Hill of 229 Main Street that they have found what they believe to be ruins of a preEuropean Iroquois village site, located in a secluded swamp on a Delaware County hill within six miles of Oneonta. The two Oneonta men have been working secretly for the past two years excavating the site. They report the finding of many fine and rare artifacts. Chester Soucek gave an excellent typewriting demonstration at the Oneonta high school assembly last Wednesday. He started with finger exercises at 123 words per minute and gradually increased speed to 127 words per minute. Mr. Soucek stated that the essential of fast typewriting is rhythm. He demonstrated this with a slow exercise at 41 words per minute. Mr. Soucek typed 126 words per minute perfectly while conversing at the same time. As a feat from memory he typed 232 words per minute and also balanced a coin on his wrist while typing. April 1935
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owner of the Oneonta Sales Co., Inc. One of the rooms selected by Mrs. Blanding will stand as a memorial to her father Riley J. Warren, who in 1912 founded the company which has continued ever since as the agency for Ford cars. Mr. Warren, who was born in Pleasant Brook, had a country store there for many years. He served two terms as Otsego County treasurer before establishing his new venture in Oneonta. His daughter assisted him as a partner in the business until his death in 1941 when she and her mother took over responsibility for the business. April 1955
40 Years Ago
Oneonta Police Sergeant Allen W. Case has been cleared of charges that he harassed Oneonta City personnel technician John Insetta. The Safety Board, in a two-page “finding of fact” said that Sergeant Case employed a very poor choice of words when he asked Insetta “Have you ever been shot at? Would you like to be?” But the Board also found that there was “no reason to believe that Sergeant Case intended any harassment or threat to John Insetta.” The Board also found that “the term ‘being shot at’ is a figure of speech commonly used within the Oneonta Police Department to
20 Years Ago
A former soldier was arrested Friday and accused of bombing the federal office building in an apparent attempt to exact vengeance against the U.S. government for the cult disaster at Waco, Texas, precisely two years earlier. A second man, Terry Nichols, surrendered in Kansas. Timothy McVeigh, 27, was arrested by the FBI at a small-town Oklahoma jail where he had spent two days on minor traffic and weapons charges. April 1995
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New York lawmakers this week approved a $150 million dollar, five-year capital program for private colleges and universities in New York. Hartwick College is eligible for close to $775,000 under the program which provides a state dollar for every $3 in college funds. “It certainly helps private colleges like Hartwick to leverage the private money they raise,” college spokesman Robert Clark said. Hartwick may seek state funds for the proposed Golisano Hall. April 2005
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Monday, April 27 | 7:30 p.m. Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre Hartwick College This lecture is free and open to the public.
Human rights violations are committed against men as well as women, however the impact of these violations differ depending on the sex of the victim. Acts of aggression and violence against women and girls are known as gender-based violence. These can take many forms, and include ProtectioN of WomeN’s rape, incest, sexual harassment at work or at school, sexual against innovative Global Programs violence women refugees, OP_LTYPP^ Z] []T^ZYP]^ _]LQåNVTYR TY bZXPY LYO OZXP^_TN aTZWPYNP The presentation will explore gender-based violence as a human rights violation in diverse settings both domestically and globally, and will discuss innovative programs being implemented in these settings with local communities to prevent and respond to genderbased violence.
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Nancy Glass Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN A Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Johns Hopkins
School of Nursing, Dr. Glass is recognized internationally for research and scholarship focused on community-partnered interventions to reduce poor health outcomes and disparities for women and children survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). Dr. Glass is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. She is currently the Principal Investigator of six RO1s funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety at CDC. In addition to NIH/CDC funding, her team’s research is supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
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Planning Board’s Only Role: Apply The Law To the Editor, The members of the Otsego Town Planning Board read with interest the letter from Town Supervisor Anne Geddes-Atwell printed in your April 10 edition. We wish to clarify the misinformation contained in that letter so that members of the public are fully aware of the roles of the Town Board and Planning Board. Ms. Geddes-Atwell alleges that the project that was proposed by a citizen of the Town could have caused “zoning change by default” without input from the citizens. However, this could not be further from the truth. As Planning Board members, we are charged with applying the existing Land Use Law of the town to any application brought before us. The Planning Board can neither change the law, nor change the zoning within the town. The application to which Ms. Geddes-Atwell refers was properly brought to the Planning Board and all Land Use Law requirements were followed, including the advertising, notice and holding of public hearings on the matter.
All citizens of the Town were given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing, and in fact were heard. Thus, Ms. Geddes-Atwell’s claim that something may have been done without input from citizens on all sides of the issue was blatantly false. Ms. Geddes-Atwell further indicates that the Town had to act to prevent “zoning change by precedent.” At no time was there to be a zoning change on the subject project, or any other project before the Planning Board, either past, present, or future. The Planning Board may not change zoning, and only the Zoning Board of Appeals may issue zoning variances. To make such a blanket assertion, again, blatantly misstates the law, and most importantly, misstates the process that the Planning Board utilizes in all applications before it. Each time an application is before the Planning board, it is given much scrutiny, including the input from citizens of the town. One need only view the comprehensive minutes of the Planning Board posted on the
Town website to know that the Planning Board takes its responsibility to adhere to the Land Use Law seriously each and every time that it considers an application. In addition, Ms. GeddesAtwell’s assertion that a legal clarification was necessary to keep the zoning status quo until further review is totally false, as the Town Board actually changed the law, after many concerned citizens urged the board not to, thus changing the zoning status quo with one stroke of a pen. It is true that there are two members of the Town Board who are gathering ideas in an effort to make appropriate and necessary changes to the Land Use Law. This idea was discussed more than two years ago in an effort to update the law as a whole and not piecemeal. However, to date, the Town Board has only reviewed portions of the Land Use Law when there is a controversy surrounding a project, and has not looked at the law as a whole. The Planning Board, however, is fully familiar with the law as a whole, and always
allows public comment at its meetings in an effort to gauge public opinion on the law and projects within the town. Some applications may be controversial, but controversy does not necessarily mean that portions of the law need be changed immediately, or that a project is not appropriate; it merely means that the democratic process works. Finally, Ms. Geddes-Atwell asks that board members be treated in a respectful manner. However, she fails to treat members of the Planning Board in a respectful manner when they are attempting to report on projects in the town at a regularly scheduled Town Board meeting. She should practice what she is attempting to preach. DONNA BORGSTROM, chair JOSEPH POTRIKUS, vice chair ROSEMARY CRAIG, ED HOBIE, SCOTTIE BAKER, TOM HUNTSMAN, STEVE PURCELL, JOHN PHILLIPS, DARRYL SZARPA Members Town of Otsego Planning Board
GOP Jumps Democrats’ Claim On Sharing Bed Tax With All To the Editor: Let’s give credit where credit is due on your bed-tax redistribution story. Your story on the bed tax did not reflect the patience, and resolve of some of our public officials in fighting to get a bill to the floor. The Otsego County Democratic Party is extremely pleased that the county Board of Representatives seems poised, finally, to adopt a plan to return a portion of the bed tax” back to the towns and villages and the City of Oneonta. As noted in the news report in last week’s editions of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, this is long overdue. But, let’s set the record straight. Your news report credits three Republican representatives with developing the plan. Nonsense. First, Democratic representatives have been pushing for return of a portion of the bed tax for the past several years and each time have been stymied by the Republican majority. Second, this plan is nearly a carbon copy of the plan put forward by county Rep. Ed
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assigned to explore various options. Membership wasn’t limited, nor are ideas to honor the former mayMalone or. Malone encourages anyone with an idea to get in touch with any of the task force members. Nor is City Hall’s memorial intended to exclude anyone else’s initiatives, said the task for co-chair. For instance, Al Cleinman has offered $10,000 toward a sculpture garden along the west side of Lettis Highway, across from his Cleinman Performance Partners. He is collaborating with Brian Fawcett of New Asbury Gardens.
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$11,250 has been raised, although no decision’s been more on what kinds of trees to plant or where. Miller remains very much alive in Theo’s life experience. After graduating in June, before going on to study economics, he plans to work and spend a year training with the Black Watch, a Schenectady soccer team. “Dick was very supportive of Theo,” said the father. “He was a student athlete; Dick watched him play soccer. Dick watched him grow up. He saw Dick come up to my front door and offer me the job as vice president of Hartwick,” Malone said. “The thing I would never forget about Dick Miller is that he would come right up to us and talk to us on our front porch. And always be deeply interested in what we were thinking.”
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